* Michael Day wrote:
>It is not that *I* think that it is obvious, it is that A4 paper is
>commonly referred to as such by the wider user community. It is marketed
>and sold as being "A4 paper" and printers and photocopiers offer "A4"
>paper trays and folders are sold as "A4 folders" for holding A4 paper and
>so on and so on. The ISO acronym never comes up outside of forums devoted
>to standardisation such as this one.
In Germany you will virtually always encounter "DIN A4"; omitting the
DIN prefix seems thus just wrong and is rather confusing to me.